Topic reply merging, turn on/off? Other technical mechanics?

[widdlemikey]

I few times I've replied in a topic to one person, then another.  But if there are no intervening replies, my two replies, for two different purposes 'merged automatically'.

Is there a way to avoid this, or turn it on/off on a per-reply basis?

In general, is there a place to find the detailed mechanics of posting?  Merging, quoting only part of someone's message in a reply? the merging question, etc...  Like a 'user manual' for the site mechanics itself?

Thanks

 

[BabySofia]

There's a time factor too... fifteen minutes? I tend to choose to let someone respond first, then post what it is to prevent it. But I'm pretty sure it's a time thing. @DailyDi I'm sure can answer this number for certain.

[DailyDi]

1 hour ago, BabySofia said:

There's a time factor too... fifteen minutes? I tend to choose to let someone respond first, then post what it is to prevent it. But I'm pretty sure it's a time thing. @DailyDi I'm sure can answer this number for certain.

Yes it is 15 minutes!

[widdlemikey]

12 hours ago, BabySofia said:

There's a time factor too... fifteen minutes? I tend to choose to let someone respond first, then post what it is to prevent it. But I'm pretty sure it's a time thing. @DailyDi I'm sure can answer this number for certain.

Thanks to both of you.  It's just when replying to different folks, or on vastly different comments, I sit down answer one, then answer another.  So my replies didn't really belong together, despite my answering one after the other.  With the time thing known now, I can keep that in mind in the future.

Thank you.

[BabySofia]

9 hours ago, widdlemikey said:

I sit down answer one, then answer another

I try to do what I just did, select the text, and reply to the poster. I'll do that for each poster so they can tell who I'm replying to.

[widdlemikey]

36 minutes ago, BabySofia said:

I try to do what I just did, select the text, and reply to the poster. I'll do that for each poster so they can tell who I'm replying to.

Yeah, I get that.  But as I tried to explain, if I do that twice in a row, to two different quotes, it was merging them both together.  I just thought it would be better if I could keep them as separate replys. Maybe it's not such a big deal, just wanted to do it so they were separate. Thanks for helping.

[Firefly 35]

On 3/16/2025 at 8:01 PM, widdlemikey said:

quoting only part of someone's message in a reply?

Highlight the part of the text you want to quote and a button labeled "Quote Selection" should pop up.